What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? / / ed. by Nicholas Watson, Cristina Maria Cervone.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Albin, Andrew,; Burt, Stephanie,; Butterfield, Ardis,; Cannon, Christopher,; Cervone, Cristina Maria,; Cornelius, Ian,; Fassler, Margot,; Galloway, Andrew,; Gibbs Jr., Raymond W.,; Jackson, Virginia,; Kumler, Aden,; Nelson, Ingrid,; Watson, Nicholas,; Zimbalist, Barbara,
• HerausgeberIn: Cervone, Cristina Maria,; Watson, Nicholas,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 p.) :; 24 halftones, 3 tables, 5 line drawings

What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The chapters draw on perspectives from varied disciplines, including literary criticism, musicology, art...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Conventions
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction. Why stonde we? why go we noȝt?
• Chapter 1. Lyric Editing
• Chapter 2. Wondering Through Middle English Lyric
• Chapter 3. Lyric Romance
• Chapter 4. Language and Meter
• Chapter 5. Lyric Value
• Chapter 6. Cognitive Poetics of Middle English Lyric Poetry
• Chapter 7. Lyric Vessels
• Chapter 8. The Sound of Rollean Lyric
• Chapter 9. The Lyric Christ
• Chapter 10. The Religious Lyric in Medieval England (1150–1400): Three Disciplines and a Question
• Chapter 11. Theory of the Fourteenth-Century English Lyric
• Chapter 12. Response: Old Lyric Things
• Chapter 13. Response: Hevy Hameres
• New Medieval Lyrics: A Chapbook
• Notes
• References
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments